A year without USAID: In Kenya, the shock reaches herders and hospitals

Pastoralist Lmetianai Lesibia watered his livestock by filling a small trough with a one gallon metal can in Longopito, Isiolo County, Kenya, on Aug. 5, 2011. Photo by: David Snyder / ZUMA Press via Reuters Connect

Drought, debt pressures, and shrinking U.S. aid are converging — exposing strain in Kenya’s pastoralist economies and public health system.